Lakhs of businesses in India are today running on Tally.ERP 9. Many of these are using Tally’s latest version – Release 6.3.1, while others are yet to upgrade. This blogpost intends to inform business owners why they need to continuously upgrade, currently to Release 6.3.1 in case they haven’t.

As Tally, we are committed to walk the GST journey with India’s businesses. Firstly, we are continuously engaging with businesses, GST professionals and tax consultants. Secondly, we continuously keep pace with the statutory evolution of GST and incorporate the developments into our product.

We started our GST journey with Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.0 and the latest version is Release 6.3.1. We will continuously launch new releases as and when they are required to make GST compliance easy and simple for you.

We will take you through the latest enhancements which are part of Release 6 and how they benefit your business by simplifying GST return filing.

Enhancements to ease GST billing in Tally’s latest version

The latest version of Tally.ERP 9 Release 6 covers all aspects of GST billing. You don’t have to worry about the correctness of calculations. The product has the unique capability to prevent errors and help you correct them by raising alerts and warnings whenever any errors occur during the first stage of data entry itself.

There are many more features which make your billing experience wonderful. Read on….

Print invoices with item-wise and rate-wise breakups

Now, with Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.3.1, you can print item-wise rate breakups in invoices. This will make your customers happier as they will get a better picture and analysis of tax breakups (CGST, SGST, IGST and Cess) for each line item. Moreover, based on the amount of information, Tally.ERP 9 automatically changes the print mode to Landscape.

GSTIN validation

Valid GSTIN number is a critical requirement for GST return filing. The latest version of Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.3.1 validates GSTIN number as soon since you make the entry. A valid GSTIN ensures that your GST returns don’t get rejected on the GST portal.

Use Journal Voucher purchases and sales entries

With the latest version of Tally.ERP 9, you can now enter new purchases and sales transactions using Journal Voucher (JV) types as you can enter ‘Reference Number’. So all new JVs passed for sales and purchases will be rightly considered in respective GST returns.

Use payment for entering expenses

Similarly, you can record expenses using Payment Voucher type which also lets you to enter ‘Reference Number.’

Use either of lower or upper case to create masters

Do you know that you can now create ‘iPhone’ as an item in Tally? Just press Shift+F3 and you can name a master starting with a lower case letter.

Enhancements to Simplify GST Return Filing

The latest version of Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.3.1 makes filing GST returns extremely simple whether you file your returns on your own, or take the help of a tax consultant who files the returns on your behalf. Let us look at the other enhancements of Release 6.3.1.

Export GSTR-3B in JSON format

You can now directly export GSTR-3B form in JSON format from Release 6.3.1 and upload it to the GSTN portal. If you prefer to view the GSTR-3B in MS Excel before uploading, you can do so as well.

Download the GSTR-3B Offline Utility from the GSTN portal. Tally.ERP 9 exports details of the transactions into the GSTR-3B MS Excel form. Click on Validate button in the form. Upon successful validation, you can generate it in JSON and upload it to the portal.

Detection of data entry errors

Any user can oversee the warning provided at the time of creation of transaction and can still make an error. Tally.ERP 9 considers all such behavioural possibilities. It has the powerful capability of error detection built-in at all stages. Errors of any kind get easily tracked and alerts appear whenever necessary, with the options to let you correct them. You can see and correct errors for both GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B separately.

Easiest way to correct errors

Tally.ERP 9 has built-in flexibility to let you correct the errors yourself, either at transaction level or master level based on your business scenario. You can also ignore an error and accept as is based on the scenario.

Most convenient way to share data

Suppose your customer asks you to modify an invoice at the last minute and you make the correction. You don’t have to worry about sharing the entire data again with your tax consultant.

With Tally’s latest release, you can share the list of only those invoices which you have modified. Your tax consultant can simply import the file and copy it onto your business data. This way you can both be sure that the data used for filing is up-to-date. Similarly, your tax consultant could also send you the list of only those invoices which he might have modified before filing the returns.

Manage your GST returns in a simpler way

If you are a business owner who files GST returns on your own, , then the latest version of Tally.ERP 9 makes it simple for you. You can easily generate GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B in JSON format which can be directly uploaded on the GSTN portal.

Please don’t forget –

1) Every latest release of Tally.ERP 9 is built to make GST compliance and GST returns filing easier and simpler for you.2) Every latest release of Tally.ERP 9 incorporates the ongoing developments in GST law.

32 Comments

Would like to bring to the notice of team Tally that when I passed and entry of payment dated 1/1/2018 the cheque is printed with year 2017 instead of 2018. Request team Tally to look into the matter and solve the bug.

while entering sales voucher ,sometimes we need to create new item as so we can press alt+c creating new item ok. but after completing the sales voucher we cannot save it .it shows the item unit measure in it is not valid .and cancelled the voucher(not saving i mean) .and starting to enter same sales voucher again it does not show any error .why it shows error when we create new item while recording sales voucher.it shows only when we create new item while recording the the sales voucher.

Could you also correct the following errorsA)If POS voucher type is selected to raise a sales invoice all the sales voucher are clubbed under Cash Ledger instead of their respective Party Ledger which was selected while raising the invoice.We are facing a difficulty in giving account statement to customers.

It’s a behavior in Tally as when we are using POS invoice we are actually taking a Cash Payment. If you want to pass a Credit sales then you should use Sales Invoice. IN case you have any specific business case do let us know. However under POS register using Columnar report you can filter transactions of that party.

Every update of Tally.ERP9 brings some advantages for the user.The advantages are in terms of security, efficiency and enhancement to taxation features in the accounting software.So its a best practice to have installed the latest version of Tally.ERP9.

Great Efforts by Entire Team of Tally for Simplicity again in Release 6.3….1. Print invoices with item-wise and rate-wise breakups in Landscape format. (5*)2. Export GSTR-3B in JSON & Excel based GSTR3B offline utility. (5*)3. Most convenient way to share data by xml through Mark Changed Vouchers. (5*)